VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-5931

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.53%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-03-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Integer overflow in hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c in QEMU (aka Quick Emulator) allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via a crafted virtio-crypto request, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Primary references